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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
- From: Tim Jackson
- Date: Wed Jan 24 20:58:40 2007
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I order it from www.tecratools.com, you can also get the lacing needles and everything else you might need:
A somewhat decent resource:
http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html
Needles and lace: http://www.tecratools.com/pages/telecom/cable_tools.html
I have seen some Qwest and BellSouth technical documents which go into a little more detail of how they expect it to be done, but go find someone who's done any kind of cabling in a CO and they can teach you :)
-- Tim
On 1/24/07, William Yardley <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
[...] > I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with some sort of > waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that repeated
> every six inches or so using a single piece of string. [...] > I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've > seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little
> luck.
The kind my vendor was able to get was flat (not the normal stuff). As far as I know, this stuff is usually surprisingly expensive and / or comes in large cases. You might just see if the people at your colo can
give you a roll or two, or ask where they order theirs (last time I asked, they bought it by the case).
I believe this is the stuff I have:
http://www.edmo.com/index.php?module=products&func=display&prod_id=20352
I got it from a local outfit (Danbru - http://danbru.com - great Socal vendor) at ~ $35/roll, which seemed exorbitant to me.
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